Bridge of Grace

In the summer of 2017, a Christian man who I shall call "Nick" to protect his identity, lost his beloved wife to an honor killing.  "Nick" had married a young Muslim woman, and her family immediately took the couple to court, claiming that "Nick" had kidnapped her and forced her to marry him.  Every day, they couple had to go to court, then one day, his wife's family decided that they were tired of the bureaucratic delay and took matters into their own hands.  They caught the two of them and beat them both severely.  "Nick's" wife, who was pregnant at the time, had to go to the hospital.  The severe beatings caused her child to die in her womb.  Fifteen days later, she succumbed to her injuries and passed away.  Even with his wife gone, "Nick's" life is still in danger.  The court dismissed the kidnapping accusations, but his wife's family is still hunting him down, they are determined to kill him too.  "Nick&qu

During my recent trip to Pakistan, I interviewed a Pakistani Christian woman who I will call "Susan" to protect her identity.  In Dec. of 2016, "Susan" had become a widow and has been forced to raise her four children on her own.  Like many children of the world, they have great dreams and ambition.  Once wishes to become a doctor, another wants to serve his country in the military, and a third desires to become a human rights lawyer, but because of a harmless argument, they will have to pursue these dreams without their father by their side.   "Susan's" husband worked as a cleaner in a factory.  He had friends who were both Muslim and Christian, but when a dispute over their respective faiths began at work, that friendship came to a sudden and violent end.  The "friends" of "Susan's" husband suddenly began to savagely beat him and told him to leave the factory.  He complied to their demands, but as he was leaving, his

The Council of American Islamic Relations, or CAIR claims to be a Civil Rights organization that fights for the equal rights of Muslims here in the United States.  Facts have shown that they are in fact, something much more sinister.  In 1998, CAIR founder Omar Ahmed publicly stated that Islam is not in America to be equal, but to dominate.   The reason he said this is because in truth, CAIR is a front organization for the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islamist organization with ties to terrorism throughout the Middle East.   Muslim Brotherhood documents dated in 1991 that were found years later by the FBI illustrated that they are engaging in a "Civilization Jihad" to bring down American from within and gradually ensure the implementation of Sharia Law on the United States.  In the U.S., the Muslim Brotherhood hides behind CAIR in order to wage this "cultural jihad” on our society.  Leftist organizations like the ACLU foolishly assist CAIR in their campaign.  For

In the nation of Iran, it is not enough to arrest and imprison feminists who remove their hijab in protest of Iran's harsh discriminatory laws against women, they are now arresting lawyers who try to defend them from Iran's unfair policies.  In early June of 2018, prominent Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested and sent to Evin Prison for defending a young Iranian woman who publicly removed her hijab in protest of Iran's harsh laws against the rights of women.  This is not something new for Sotoudeh.  She had been arrested in 2010 for defending the rights of people unjustly persecuted by the Iranian regime and spent three years in prison.  She was not released until September of 2013.  Now sources are saying she has been sentenced to serve another five years in the notorious Evin prison, for the crime of defending innocent women who are fighting for their basic human rights.  As it stands, the Iranian regime is only permitting 20 government appointed

On December 10, 1948, the newly formed United Nations issued forth the  Universal Declaration of Human Rights  with the aim of protecting the basic rights of life, liberty, equality, and pursuit of happiness for all people in all nations.  However, in 1990, 45 Islamic nations met in Cairo in an event known as the  Organization of the Islamic Conference.   At this conference, these nations drafted their own declaration called the  Cairo Declaration  or the  Universal Declaration of Human Rights under Islam .    It very plainly states that Sharia (Islamic Law) supersedes all so-called man-made rights constructs.  This was done for the specific purpose of defying the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.   The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Cairo Declaration are polar opposites.  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a civilized code of ethics pioneered by Western Democracies of the modern world that demands dignity for all people and human rights for all,

In an incident known to the world today as the May 2001 Dos Palmas attack, two American missionaries: Gracia Burnham & her husband Martin, were kidnapped along another U.S. citizen & 17 Filipinos from the resort of Dos Palmas.  The Burnham's who were devout Christians, were celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary at the resort.  For years the Burnham's had worked as missionaries in the Philippines as part of New Tribes Missions.  Martin worked as a pilot delivering supplies to the tribes while Gracia guided him over the radio.  They were also proud parents of three children.  Their kidnappers were the infamous terrorist group, Abu Sayyaf.   For years the Abu Sayaff, along with other Jihadist rebels such as the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have battled the Philippine government for control of the predominantly Islamic islands of the South Philippines.  The initial goal of these terrorists is to take over the S

Today, virtually every historical scholar acknowledges that the Nazis did commit a terrible genocide against the Jewish people.  However, in recent years, there has been a question as to whether other groups of people were also targeted by the Nazis for genocide.  One such group of people is the Polish people.  In order to properly answer that question, one must first ask: “What is Genocide?”  This in itself is a difficult question to answer as so many people have differing views on what constitutes genocide.  Though the definitions vary, one of the most consistent and accepted definition is the one given by the United Nations “Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.   Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948 Article II In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group

For decades, the Khartoum Regime of Sudan has engaged in an ongoing slave trade, abducting hundreds of thousands of Africans for the purpose of selling them off as slaves.  In the region of South Sudan, the Nuba Mountians, and Darfur, Africans of all faiths have been abducted and enslaved.  How did the UN respond to this epidemic in 1999?  They officially condemned an NGO organization that had been fighting to free these slaves! The Christian organization Christian Solidarity International (CSI), has worked for years to free slaves throughout the Sudan.  In a move typical of a dictatorship, the Khartoum regime demanded that CSI lose its consultative status at the United Nations.  In a move of ultimate hypocrisy, (UNICEF) actually joined Khartoum in condemning CSI as the UNICEF charter mandates that it must work in partnership with the dictatorial government of the Sudan.  In October of 1999 the UN Economic and Social Council voted in a tally of 26 to 14 (with 12 abstentions)  to e

In a time when most are obsessing over the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, many ignore the plight of the Palestinians who suffer in Arab Lands, places the the Palestinian Refugee Camp of Yarmouk in Syria.  Prior to the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, over 160,000 Palestinians lived in Yarmouk, and an additional 100,000 Syrians lived in the area.  By the year 2013, the Syrian Civil War turned the Camp into a War Zone.  Palestinians within the Camp began to chose sides, some joining Assad, while others joined various rebel groups.  This quickly led to the Palestinian Community of the Camp turning against each other. With so much in-fighting, it was only a matter of time before ISIS and Assad's forces moved in.  Assad sought to crust the rebels permanently and repeatedly subjected the Camp to air attacks.  By 2015, ISIS took over, killing thousands and enacting harsh Sharia Law upon what remained of the populace, which has only served to increase Assad's bombing campaign

Mende Nazer was born in 1982 to the Nuba tribe in the Nuba Mountain region that borders the North and South Sudan.  Mende, her family, and tribe are all Muslims, but despite this, they have been attacked for decades by the Arab militia forces of the North Sudan.  Thousands of Nuba, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, have been abducted by these bandits and sold into slavery.  At the age of 12, Arab militia once again attacked, and Mende was taken away as a slave along with many other Nuba children.  Prior to her abduction, Mende had a dream of becoming a doctor so she could give medical aid to the poor people in her tribe.  That dream was destroyed by the Arab militia.  As the militia took to children to the Sudanese capital of Khartoum to be sold into slavery, she was repeatedly beaten and raped by Arab militia fighters.     In Khartoum, Mende soon found herself sold to a cruel Arab family.  This family was very racist and they viewed all Africans, even fellow Muslims, as inferi

Many in our nation feel that the “War on Terror” in a new conflict.  In truth, it is not.  America was fighting a war against Jihadist terrorism since before our Founding Fathers drafted the American Constitution.  In the year 1785, two years after the United States signed the Treaty of Paris, officially ending the Revolutionary War, the U.S.S. Dauphin was attacked by the Barbary Pirates of North Africa.  The ships cargo was stolen and the sailors sold into slavery.  This raid was the first of many U.S. ships to be attacked by the pirates.  Upon being enslaved, the America sailors had little hope of escape.  They could either convert to Islam, escape, or pray that their nation would ransom them.  Richard O’Brien, who was the captain of the U.S.S. Dauphin, would be enslaved in Algeria for 10 years before he was finally ransomed.  The threat of the Barbary Pirates was not new to the world at this time.  From the 16 th -18 th  centuries, the Barbary forces raided ships and th

Haj Amin al-Husseini, former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, is considered by some to be the father of the modern Palestinian movement.  Ironically enough, this man as an ally of Adolf Hitler and assisted in carrying out the Final Solution.  After World War I, al- Husseini’s goal was to was to unite the Arabs of “Palestine” to Syria as part of an Arab-ruled “greater Syria.”  Palestine at this time was then known as “Southern Syria.”  It was Syrian-Arab nationalism that attracted Husseini, not Palestinian Nationalism.   The long-term goal was to create a Pan-Arab state encompassing Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, West Bank, and Gaza.  As al-Husseini's goal of creating a Pan-Arab Islamic state was not compatible with either Zionism or democracy, and because there were no German colonies in the Islamic world, al-Husseini's Pan-Arab Islamist ambitions made him the perfect candidate for Hitler to seek an alliance with.    For years al-Husseini orchestrated pogroms against the Je